Mireille Darc

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Mireille Darc (2014)

Mireille Darc (born May 15, 1938 as Mireille Aigroz in Toulon , Var ; † August 28, 2017 in Paris ) was a French actress .

life and career

The daughter of a gardener and a grocer graduated from the Art School of Toulon with honors and then worked as a mannequin in Paris . She first played a few roles for television before discovering her talent for cinema .

Mireille Darc made her movie debut in 1960 in the film Risky Pastime (with Jean-Paul Belmondo ). The following year, she was one of Brigitte Bardot's partners in the film In Freiheit trained in the world of models . This was followed by leading roles in films with Louis de Funès ( Quietsch ... squeak ... who's drilling for oil - alternative titles: crooks, gags and financial transactions, 1963) and Jean Gabin ( Monsieur , 1964). Her breakthrough to star brought her the title role in Georges Lautner's psychological thriller Love for Three. Mireille Darc was to make a total of thirteen films with Lautner, including the crime comedy Take it easy, take dynamite with Lino Ventura the following year .

Mireille Darc, often used as a “cool blonde” but also as a comedian, had already become one of the most famous actresses in French cinema when she met Alain Delon in 1968 . Her relationship with him determined her professional and private life for the next fifteen years. With Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, she made a short appearance as a prostitute in 1970, the epic film Borsalino about the rise and fall of two criminals. She had leading roles in 1967 alongside Jean Yanne in Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend and alongside Delon in the films Madly, Jeff, Les seins de glace and Der Antiquitätenjäger. She later played smaller roles alongside Delon, for example in The Serrano Case or Cameos, and as a pedestrian in Save your skin, killer . However, she celebrated her greatest international cinema success in 1972 with Pierre Richard in The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe . In 1974, the two made a similarly successful sequel with The Big Blonde Returns .

Mireille Darc (1989)

In the 1980s, Mireille Darc's screen appearances became less common. During this decade there was a heart operation, a traffic accident with serious injuries, the separation from Alain Delon and the death of her first husband. In 1989, she led - at its screenplay  - first director in La Barbare, a film about a neglected daughter who takes revenge on her father by seducing one of his friends and thus ruined his life.

In the 1990s, Mireille Darc celebrated triumphs on French television. The family saga Les Coeurs brulés found up to eight million viewers. At the beginning of the new century, she shot widely acclaimed television reports and appeared again on the side of Alain Delon in the series about the policeman Frank Riva . All in all, she has appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.

After her long-term relationship with Alain Delon (1968–1983), she married the journalist and author Pierre Barret († 1989) in 1984. Since 2002 she was married to the architect Pascal Desprez. She was the godmother of the writer Romain Sardou .

In 2005 Mireille Darc published her autobiography Tant que battra mon cœur. In the same year she was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor .

Since childhood Mireille Darc was suffering from valvular heart disease , and had 1980 surgery on the heart . She died in 2017 at the age of 79 and was buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris . At the funeral service in the church of St-Sulpice took Alain Delon , Jack Lang , Johnny Hallyday and Carla Bruni part.

Filmography (selection)

Publications

Web links

Commons : Mireille Darc  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mort de Mireille Darc: Quatre choses que vous ne connaissez (peut-être) pas sur l'icône du cinéma français. In: 20Minutes.fr. August 28, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Squeak-squeak (1963) - IMDb. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Mireille Darc
  4. ↑ Bereavement. Hundreds at funeral service for actress Mireille Darc. In: Blick.ch. September 2, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Darc, Mireille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aigroz, Mireille (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulon , Var department
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2017
Place of death Paris